[Changes in the rural vocational education system]
2003
Busmanis, P. | Soika, I. (Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia))
Prosperity of people is the goal of material and intellectual resumption. Latvian countryside is of vital importance in realization of this goal. There live nearly 32% of all Latvian inhabitants today. The education is one of the indice of life quality. Only educated people, who are able to compete in the labour market, can create the necessary preconditions for further development. The rural vocational education of Latvia is essentially influenced by processes of transformation to market economy, in the result of which the rural labour market has changed because of cardinally diminishing traditional requirements for the labour force. The rural vocational education system has reached over-production of the labour force and meets serious problems in students' admission: low prestige of rural professions and insufficient preparedness in general education. Therefore, the rural vocational system is in a continuous innovation process of the curriculum. To overcome various difficulties, essential changes of the rural vocational education have happened in the interests of the Latvian state and its rural sustainable development.
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